31.   Game publishers are only too happy to concentrate on CD-based games, said Mirko Freguia, product manager at Square Soft Inc. of Redmond, Wash.

32.   He began collecting contraceptive artifacts as a product manager for Ortho Pharmaceutical, a company specializing in the manufacture of family planning products.

33.   He started his new job as associate product manager there two days after his son, Michael, was born.

34.   He started out as product manager for the Microsoft Flight Simulator program and Microsoft Works.

35.   I asked Ian Morris, lead product manager for HomeAdvisor, why Microsoft would jeopardize its world-class reputation by posting a primitive, faulty Web site, even temporarily.

36.   Indeed, Kim Akers, a group product manager for Microsoft, told me that her firm has sent out tainted disks at least twice before.

37.   It presents users with a lot of puzzling on-screen options without offering much help, said David Thacher, Microsoft group product manager.

38.   Jean Louis Pello, product manager at Club Med, said the European assignments would not affect agency assignments in other markets.

39.   Karl Marsh, senior product manager for Memtek in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., confirmed a report of the review this week in Adweek.

40.   Keith just lost his job as product manager at a company called WinWin.com, and the money is especially welcome.